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Audience and Election Ads

Five election ads that illustrate issues of audience:

• Barack Obama "The Same."
• Mitt Romney, "100 Days in NC."
• Mitt Romney, "100 Days in Iowa."
• Mitt Romney, "A Better Day." 
• Barack Obama, "Facts."

Take note of how each ad addresses a specific audience and seeks to offer some form of "evidence" about why an Obama or Romney administration will be better for the country. How do the ads appeal to the values, emotions, and beliefs of a specific audience? What specific characteristics would you identify with that audience? How effectively do these ads address all three major components of argument (ethos, pathos, logos) defined by Aristotle?

Google Glasses

Videos and articles:

• Kashmir Hill article
• Google's Project Glass
• Parody: A New Way to Hurt Yourself
• Parody: Admented Reality
  

Class Discussion: TV Censorship

Videos on TV indecency rulings and TV ownership models:

• FCC's Indecency Rules: Outdated?
• What Role Should the FCC Play?
• Who Owns TV Programming?

DTRT Scene List

Here are some of the passage to consider for Intro to Film:

• Do the Right Thing Part 1: 4:24 Introducing Senor Love Daddy, Da Mayor, and (7:02) Mookie
  
• Part 2: 0:00: A conversation at the pizzeria.
• Part 3: 0:00 "Boycott Sal's;" (2:58, "Do the Right Thing")
  
• Part 4: Jordans get scuffed and Eyeline match with cops and continue with conversation at wall, more heat, later in the movie
  
• Part 5: Martin Lawrence schools Da Mayor; racist rants
  
• Part 6: Mookie and Radio chat and then Radio gets some pizza and then Pino wants to sell (continues in Part 7)
• Part 10: riot begins
  
• Part 10 also: Radio Raheem is Dead!
  
• Part 11: It's "our" Home and shallow focus and Mookie as dad and Mookie goes to see Sal
• Part 12: Show me the money!

Howard Beach history

Sample Logical Fallacies

Here are some videos that depict logical fallacies. See if you can pick them out:

• Ned Lamont Campaign Advertisement
• Daily Show Immigrant Disease
• Kobe Selling Sprite
• Daily Show Fright Club
• Alan Jackson Crazy about a Ford
• Hilary Clinton 3 AM
• Saturday Night Live Old Glory
  
• Ronald Reagan The Bear
  
• Xtranormal Magic Shirt
• Xtranomral Old People Can't Exercise because they are Old
• Xtranormal All Philosophy Classes are Hard
  
• Lyndon Johnson Daisy
• LBJ Ice Cream
• George H. W. Bush Dukakis on Crime
  

Head injuries in the NFL

Here is an article discussing the high rates of dementia and depression among former NFL players, in this case focusing on the work of Gay Culverhouse, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers executive who is now active in raising awareness about the problem. As we read, consider how the article defines the problem. Does it offer sufficient evidence to show that head injuries among former football players is a major concern? What solutions might we consider?